This is why I refused to comment on this thread, they jumped the gun: http://atheistforums.org/thread-5492.html
The findings of the experiments were under scrutiny from the get-go, they didn't go through peer-review, arsenate is NOT arsenic, and said bacteria are merely resistant to the harmful ions as opposed to actually incorporating the compound/element in substitution of phosphorus.
The findings of the experiments were under scrutiny from the get-go, they didn't go through peer-review, arsenate is NOT arsenic, and said bacteria are merely resistant to the harmful ions as opposed to actually incorporating the compound/element in substitution of phosphorus.
(December 8, 2010 at 7:29 am)theVOID Wrote: It's quite a funny turn of events, from "NASA finds alien life" to "Bacteria uses arsenic to build DNA" to "Lazy researchers forget to prep experiment properly"Change that headline to "Astrobiology research team loses funding from NASA".
